WG: Change NIC names (thus the order)

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Wed Nov 23 17:43:46 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 17:37 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Kiessling, Michael wrote:
> > is it possible to change the order the NICs are named?
> > Eg: eth0 should be eth2 and vice versa
> man ifrename
> man iftab
> 
> These are part of the wireless-tools package. You probably have it
> installed: a whole heap of standard programs depend on it.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.
> 
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James,

Good to know.

I forgot about MAC address as a unique identifier, duh!

Bob...




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